You're assuming that academic co-authorship is always a valid reflection of mutual contribution? 🤔
This is a good summary of the debate at the IMEdD conference on 'navigating the age of doubt'. I welcomed the age of doubt 😀
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"Navigating the Age of Doubt": Journalists Debate Survival, Trust and the Future of their Mission - iMEdD Lab
The opening panel of the iMEdD International Journalism Forum 2025 highlighted a profession in flux, balancing threats and opportunities, technology and human values, skepticism and public service.
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Polite question. Why, of all artistic genres, do movie makers insist on ruining the opening of their product with endless credits and production logos? What is the point? It doesn't build anticipation or improve brand recognition. New broadcasters (YT) don't do it. So why?
The weird thing is that it portrays extreme politics as niche and quaint when, in the US, they are now mainstream
It's as good as they say. Tip: get close seats to a big screen. The close ups are immense. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter-skelter counterculture caper
Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction
www.theguardian.com
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A good example of constructive journalism from Helen Davidson: reporting on a disaster aftermath in a serious but positive way that stresses resilience alongside grief www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Gym bros, monks, retirees: thousands descend on Taiwan town to clean up after devastating flood
Trains packed with volunteers arrive at tourist town of Guangfu, days after typhoon sent millions of tonnes of mud and water crashing through its streets
www.theguardian.com
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Yes it's horrific and I've no idea how you'd stop it. Except close down OpenAI
I'm struggling to find any decent analysis of Hamas and its response to the Trump proposal. Mainstream media seems to treat them as an homogenous but almost mythical entity. Anyone seen anything good?
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I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.
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Last week at the International Journalism Forum in Athens, Anna Bucks (@economist.com), Mari Luz Peinado (@elpais.com), and Jason Koebler (@404media.co) discussed how they bring readers directly to their platforms.
Here’s some of what they’ve tried and learned: www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-...
Here’s some of what they’ve tried and learned: www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-...
“The AI-ification of email” keeps 404 Media’s Jason Koebler up at night
For now, though, email newsletters have "completely changed" 404's business "almost literally overnight."
www.niemanlab.org
I wrote a tiny blog based on a bit of what I said at the Athens iMEdD International Journalism Forum last week. Links in the piece to a recording of the whole session 'Navigating the age of doubt' and the rest of the conference blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2025/0...
It's also exemplary at showing their workings. This is not just good transparency around AI, it's also an excellent bit of media literacy that helps the public understand how hard quality journalism can be, and why you need to have resources to invest in it www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Reading the post-riot posts: how we traced far-right radicalisation across 51,000 Facebook messages
Tracing profiles of those charged with online offences in summer 2024 helped us map a thriving social ecosystem trading far-right sentiment and political disillusionment
www.theguardian.com
This Guardian investigation into UK online far-right networks is a brilliant example of how to combine human journalism with LLM AI tools for long-term, in-depth, large-scale data analysis. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow
The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation
www.theguardian.com
This is a fascinating journalism conference in Athens. Superbly organised and with a distinct focus on practice and mission-driven journalism. It is somewhat eccentric, but I like that. Amazing venue, too www.imedd.org/events/imedd...
iMEdD International Journalism Forum 2025 - iMEdD
We welcome ideas highlighting practical skill-building, emerging technologies, and a diversity of voices in journalism.
www.imedd.org
Terrific debate in Athens tonight about how we navigate the treacherous media waters: insights from across the globe #imedd forum.imedd.org/en/journalis...
Those of us on the liberal left who think the world has gone mad forget that is exactly what those on the far right think, too
People's responses to Trump are more nuanced and shifting. I can't believe there isn't increased push back against the madness. But this comment on the UK Telegraph is interesting. His rhetoric makes sense as style as much as ideology
The best opponents of misinformation are not political journalists because they see it as part of a power game. It takes expert journalists to expose the lies and also how dangerous they are.
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There's a wrong way and a right way to report this
How about 'My BBC' - you pay a licensed fee but get a personalised package - including news - that is curated and reformatted by AI (😉) to suit you - does universality have to meet uniformity?
Matt - you raise a really point. Perhaps websites themselves are the problem - newsletters, social media etc allow much greater tailoring for specific audience types
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I've tried to flesh this thought out a bit more on Substack
open.substack.com/pub/mattwals...
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Bloody BBC, why has it published this rubbish?
Or why the corporation needs to use news product design to reduce complaints
open.substack.com
This is it. The idea that Twitter was a hot bed of cross-ideological deliberation is mistaken